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The Sensation Fiction of Wilkie Collins
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction” explores the interactions between the shock of reading sensation fiction and the affective potential of the genre using Sara Ahmed’s definition of the killjoy and the affect alien. The sensation genre, as explained in its name, is …
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Curating the object: Art collection and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
… Robert Browning’s verse, Wilkie Collins’s sensation fiction, and Wilde’s essays realigned these terms to suggest a model of curatorship which connected the care of beautiful objects to the care of others and the care of the self.
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… the figure of the governess in the Victorian Sensation Novels of the 1860s in order to determine if sensation fiction in this period was inevitably concerned with portraying the ungovernable side of femininity. The primary focus will be on the female protagonist in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… drive to discover and integrate facts into his fiction can be seen in all of his novels, but none so clearly as in the five he subtitled "a matter-of-fact romance." Since the early 1900s, Reade has been completely excluded from the literary canon, and few critics have devoted any significant …
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"The Wretched State of My Nerves:" Hysteria and Sympathy in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
<p>This thesis explores the sympathy shown to disabled characters in Wilkie Collins’s 1860 novel <em>The Woman in White</em> with an emphasis on hysteria. Using disability studies framework and historical context of hysteria in the Victorian era provides a nuanced reading of the novel which …
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
<p>As an archetypal sensation novel, <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the boundaries of both crime and insanity. As the main character, Robert Audley, investigates the mysterious disappearance of his close friend, he begins to suspect that his uncle’s new wife, Lucy …